good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it s kasie hunt. it s thursday, 5:00 a.m. here in washington. it s 4:00 a a.m. in iowa. there are now four days until the caucuses. hours ago, ron desantis and nikki haley went head to head on the cnn debate stage in the fight for number two. both deploying the pants on fire strategy. you have said it again. stop lying. she said she never said it. you re lying. it doesn t change the fact that ron is lying because ron is losing. you lie a the lot. hnikki haley gives him a run fo his money. you get the point. they both also took some time to go after the no-show, far away republican front runner, donald trump. i think what happened on january 6th was a terrible day. i think president trump will have to answer for it. he sat in the white house and tweeted law and order. but he did nothing to ensure law and order. as your president, i will never let our city burn. at that very moment, trumps wa
concealing the documents. trump team will say we don t know what they are going to say, but they clearly are making the case about a two-tiered system of justice. i think it s fascinating to watch the gop candidates. remember, this is happening in miami. obviously the governor of florida is running against desantis, his comments have been to suggest there are two tiers of justice and the biden administration is slow and the hillary clinton investigation went nowhere, despite destroying 33,000 emails and destroying cell phones and the like. and talking about that is something that i think each of these candidates has hung on to. but there has been a bit of an evolution and some of them, like nikki haley, like former vice president pence who obviously worked for former president trump in that white house have said those things, the two tier system, that talking point but then said but these charges as written are serious. then you have others like asa hutchinson, former gover
hello. and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m michael holmes. a terrifying incident leaves many boeing 737 max 9s temporarily grounded and 177 passengers and crew feeling lucky to be alive. we re actually now waiting for a news briefing from the u.s. national transportation safety board. that s set to begin at any minute, and we will bring it to you live. they ll be discussing what happened on alaska airlines flight 1282 on friday. officials and witnesses say a part of the fuselage called a plug blew off during the plane s ascent leaving a gaping doorway sized hole in the side of the jet while it was an altitude of 16,000 feet. that s around 4,900 meters. incredibly the plane made a successful emergency landing and there were injuries but none of them serious. now, after the alaska airlines emergency, the u.s. federal aviation administration temporarily grounded certain boeing 737 max 9 aircraft operated by u.s. airlines or in u.s. terri
in two explosions in south eastern iran, near the grave of a top revolutionary guards commander. state television says the blasts occurred in quick succession in the city of kerman, during a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the killing of qasem soleimani. he was iran s most powerful military commander and was killed in 2020 by a us air strike in iraq. local officials say two bags containing explosives were detonated by remote control at the entrance to the burial site. bbc persian s parham gobadi gave me further details of the blast. as you mentioned, this is one of the deadliest attacks in iran in the past a0 years. it has been unprecedented, the number of the death toll is rising every every few minutes, so far. they say that some of those who were injured are in critical conditions and we know at least one medic was among the casualties who was killed, two others, at least, are in critical conditions. they say that after the first explosion took place, the second, when
donald trump called it an invasion. with less than two weeks left until the iowa caucuses, today trump and desantis published dueling op-eds in the des moines register. both cast immigration as the most pressing problem facing our country. both candidates promised that they and they alone can fix it. now, what both trump and desantis are advancing in these op-eds are neither actual fixes to our country s border issues, nor are they actual immigration policy, but they are the sort of plans you can tell people you have, and they are articulating them to the public. they want to let fewer brown people in. they want immigration to be as painful as possible. none of that addresses the root cause of migration and the actual problems with our immigration system, which are real. but it is a plan, and it is a plan around which republicans are largely unified. this is video from last friday of migrants including children and adults carrying children, attempting to cross a river at the